when QNAP 'fixes' something else dodgy in their firmware - which seems like every few weeks.Īny advise and/or alternatives on the HW selection would be most appreciated.The Protectli Vault Pro VP2410 is a small form-factor network appliance with a strong emphasis towards building your own OPNsense or pfSense Router & Firewall. and taking the network down every time I have to do NAS maintenance, etc. I'm tired of QNAP's dodgy Network vSwitch BUI tools changing my networks out from under me every time I try to create a new private vSwitch for a test env. stability/reliability of the QNAP OS and maintenance BUI sucks. Truth be told, this VM is overkill resource-wise as I rarely get over 12-20% CPU or 30% memory utilization - that's without the VPN, but. Have been running pfSense 2.4.4-p2 in a 2vCPU/8G VM on a dual-cpu i7-6700 3.4GHz 4-core QNAP NAS with 64GB RAM.

Would like to enable OpenVPN for for some classes of out-going traffic and for incoming client devices - but won't even start thinking of any of that until on a hardware solution. I'm supporting both residential and 12hx5d business traffic on this connection. PFBlockerNG, snort, squid, squid rev-proxy, lightsquid, bandwidthd, ntopng.Ĭurrently have a 300/50 mbit WAN connection, anticipating 1gbps fiber in the near future.

Note: I don't really need the 10G SFP+ ports yet as switches only have 1G SFP (not used) and I still have plenty of RJ45 copper ports open to use for the router interconnects. With Intel Xeon D-1518, Dual 10G SFP+, 6 GbE LAN, IPMI

I'm narrowing down my options for a HW build for pfSense.

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